Abstract

Designed as a companion volume to Hospers' textbook An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, this is a collection of readings on topics roughly parallelling the topics dealt with in the Introduction--Knowledge and Certainty, Necessary Truth, The Justification of Belief, Cause and Determinism, Mind and Body, The Existence of God, Our Knowledge of the External World, and Problems of Ethics. A very brief introduction to each section offers cross-references to both discussions and bibliographies in the Introduction. For the most part readings have been selected to present opposed points of view on a specific issue; they range in length from two or three pages to twenty odd, and in time from Aquinas to the present--recent and contemporary thinkers naturally far outnumbering classical figures.--R. D.